Get Ready to Docker Closing down the PHP project today felt a little sad. It’s a series that I’ve been working on for quite some time now and finally felt like I’ve exhausted the subject. I’ll probably continue with some more advanced topics since I don’t want it to end. As I write that, I feel a little better about it now. Let’s continue with my absolute favorite framework, Laravel. We briefly looked at the installation process in the previous article, and to be honest, it’s about as simple as it gets. There are a few different ways to install

A Guide to Laravel and Docker Setup We’re going to pretend that you just bought a new Mac and are trying to get up and running as quickly as possible. There are going to be a couple of things that you’ll need to get started, such as brew, composer, and Docker. If you don’t need to pull a Laravel project from GitHub, and this is your first time installing a Laravel project on your computer, you can skip the Brew and Composer installation steps. Make sure that you have Docker installed and run the Laravel install command. If you do have a Laravel

Dockerizing Your Development Environment from Scratch   I frequently speak with individuals on how to setup work environments. There’s still a large community that rejects Docker; I’m assuming because they don’t know how to use it fully. In this article, I want to show how to use Docker to setup an environment on your computer. That’s all you need. You won’t need anything else and it doesn’t matter which operating system you’re using. Never will you have to worry about changing versions on your computer. You can do it all through Docker. New Projects If we visit the Laravel documentation,

Streamlining, Scalability, and Seamless Collaboration It’s 2023 and we’re still having this conversation. I’m sitting here, writing this article and listening to the Lex Fridman’s interview with Ginni Rometty.     Early in the interview, Ginni mentions that the thing that they looked for from candidates wasn’t a college degree (even though they started off that way), instead it was a willingness to change. I’ve spoken to many senior developers that still don’t believe in Docker or how it might help them. They’re focused on the way that they’ve developed for the past 10 years and are not interested in